I will not be headed to OSCon in July after all but will be keeping my other event and travel commitments for the rest of this month, and June.

The hacker word of the week this week is fork.

The feature this week is another monologue trying to bring to the surface my hackish assumptions, this time on how I see public policy, especially my own experiences in cultivating a second career recently in this space.

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I will be at Freedom to Connect later this month, then at Balticon. In June, I will be in London from the 7th to the morning of the 19th. I will be taking a brief side trip to Paris the 10th through the 12th. In July, I will be at OSCon. Come and find me at any of these events or places or feel free to send a note if you are interested in a meet up.

This week’s security alerts are a proof of concept Android trojan that uses motion sensors to capture sensitive data and one of the first responses to the recent string of SSL concerns spins up.

In this week’s news, millions of Harvard library catalog records made openly available, first legal focus hackathon, single layer silicon compound could beat graphene to market, and 1Gbps wireless network made with plain old red and green laser pointers.

Following up this week CISPA veto recommended by White House and mainstream media ponders how The Pirate Party may be changing politics itself.

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This month, save for Balticon towards the end, should be pretty quiet.

Listener feedback this week was from Ralph looking for information on Commottion Wireless; Jon, ConFigures and Jim on the meaning of feeling your oats with relation to its original usage; Charles on the question of failure despite feeling your oats; and Daniel who was asking about a podcast on how I produce the podcast.

The hacker word of the week this week is foreground.

The feature this week is another monologue trying to bring to the surface my hackish assumptions, this time on how I see the suggestion of meritocracy in the FLOSS world.

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This week’s security alerts are researchers develop improve quantum encryption and five year old remote code execution hole patched in Samba.

In this week’s news, algorithms for smart sand that sculpts itself, print your own robots being developed, exotics electronics may be possible with topological insulators, and multi-core chips as mini internets.

Following up this week The Pirate Bay promotion attracts over 5,000 artists and Blue Systems steps up to sponsor Kubuntu.

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Listener feedback this week is from Florian, who wrote in response to the episode about Andrea’s Linux Switch and recommended Shotwell in Digikam doesn’t work out, and Brendan who recommended the radio program and podcast, Spark from CBC in particular episode 174, and to share his own experiences support his family’s use of Linux.

The hacker word of the week this week is for values of.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the experience of feeling your oats, that is feeling especially confident or energetic. I think of it as a book end piece to the chapter on adjustment, especially my thoughts on the dis-location that comes with starting a new job. Some of the discussion also touches on the chapters on stretching yourself and personal growth.

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This week’s security alerts are debating the security of multi-word passphrases and analyzing the changing causes and costs of data breaches.

In this week’s news, AI project builds video games completely from scratch, making an AI at least as smart as a toddler, advice for taking the saner, slow route to growing a new endeavor, and an alternative to file sharing, flying drones.

Following up this week Open3DP is open again and lawsuit around music inspired by Pi dismissed on Pi Day.

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In the intro, a quick explanation of the shift from releasing the podcast on Sunday to releasing it on Monday.

Listener feedback this week is from Dave, who recommended pymazon; John who shared some excellent thoughts on efficiency and geek fatigue; and Paul, who recommended virtualization as a hedge against the cost of recovery from failed upgrades and experiments.

The feature this week is a conversation with my wife, Andrea, about her experiences in her own words switching back to Linux. Andrea has been on the podcast before though not in quite some time. If the mention of her hobbies interests you, I highly recommend you check out her blog.

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In the intro I mentioned an appearance in a Dan Bull video and explained a bit more about it as well as an appearance of my cartoon avatar.

This week’s security alerts are the little white box that can hack your network and Adobe provide a tool for examining Flash files.

In this week’s news, IBM busts record for superconducting quantum computer, Smithsonian seeks to make objects in its museums 3D printable though not necessarily by the public, considering the future of scouting in the form of hacker scouts, and erasing a bit experimentally shown to boost entropy.

Following up this week a plan for using Raspberry Pi for networked free speech and App Inventor now open to all.

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Listener feedback this week is from Eric, Bryan and Will all in some way responding to the last feature about switching my wife back to Linux.

The hacker word of the week this week is for free.

The feature this week is a further discussion of a topic I’ve visited before, geek fatigue, this time focusing more on combating it, especially the form the arises from experiences like my return to Linux.

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This week’s security alerts are a Firefox extension that illustrates password reuse and researchers break video CAPTCHAs.

In this week’s news, the first free-software, Linux tablet is on its way with more details and a video, researchers find flaw in key generation with popular cryptography including responses from several respected security researchers and some further details, a single atom transistor that pushes silicon to its limits, and a hint of what the next generation of post-relational data stores may bring.

Following up this a successful Kickstarter for Code Hero and firmed up dates for Mozilla’s open web app store.

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If you are going to be in the North Eastern part of the US in March, check out North East Linux Fest and LibrePlanet. Thanks, Jonathan, for pointing these out to me.

Listener feedback this week is from Lachlan and Steve both of whom wrote in response to my feature on hackish assumptions. Lachlan also questioned why hackers should cultivate some awareness of public policy. Steve is in favor of my proposed talk for Ohio Linux Fest. I hope to have a beta of the talk at Balticon in May.

The hacker word of the week this week is footprint.

The feature this week is the story of how and why I switched my wife back to use Linux full time..

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The details about the call for papers for the tenth Ohio Linux Fest are here.

This week’s security alerts are passwords are not going away any time soon and wasting hacker’s time to keep web sites safe.

In this week’s news, The Pirate Bay launches a promo platform for artists, how quantum computing could move to the cloud, smallest transistors from nano-tubes outperform silicon, and Google’s new privacy policy including first reactions and Google’s response to them.

Following up this Mozilla adds BrowserID support to all its sites and Kirby Ferguson and EFF seek a remix exemption to the DMCA.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fool.

The feature this week is a monologue that attempts to bring to the surface some of the assumptions that inform my world view as a self identified hacker for examination and hopefully discussion.

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This week’s security alerts are a new slow motion DoS attack and mapping malware into beautiful 3D models.

In this week’s news, a semantic line interface, considering internet access as a human right, why you don’t need a college degree to be a profession coder, and a call to bring back the busy signal, at least metaphorically.

Following up this week file sharing religion officially recognized in Sweden and first SOPA’s DNS blocking provision is deferred then the entire bill is delayed indefinitely.

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Listener feedback this week came from Thomas who wrote to let me know PuTTY is available in Debian based Linux distros as well as on Windows.

The hacker word of the week this week is foobar.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter in the challenges and opportunities of working at all levels.

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This is likely to be the last podcast of the year. Next Sunday is Christmas with familial obligations if not personal observation. The Sunday after is New Year’s day when I am likely to need to quietly recover from the evening before. If you want to hear more from me before 2012, try the latest Living Proof Brew Cast, my latest stint guest co-hosting Tecnorama or the travelog from my most recent business trip to Paris (day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4 and day 5.) Appropriate to the shortening days, listener Florian sent a link to a great blog post talking about hacking your metabolism to offset seasonal effects.

This week’s security alerts are OpenDNS adds encrypted security and security problem in PuTTY ssh client fixed.

In this week’s news, potential for small and low energy chips demonstrated with first molybdenite prototype, the condescending UI, no copyright infringement intended and 3D printing in space.

Following up this week alternate bill to SOPA proposed with open feedback site and early analysis and Other OS class action against Sony dismissed.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is the recording of the live interview I conducted with Cory Doctorow at the New America Foundation (where I now work.) We talked mostly about his new essay collection, “Context” but as usual the conversation ranged widely from there, especially when we opened up to audience questions.

My thanks to both Cory for his time and John Taylor Williams for getting me this audio.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is a conversation I had with my friend and friend of the podcast, Chris Miller, about digital scofflaws, inspired by Ken Burns’ “Prohibition” documentary.

Update: My guest, Chris Miller, assembled some more in-depth notes on our discussion when he re-shared this episode on his blog.

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In the intro, if you are interested in my recent trip to Brussels, check out my four part travelogue (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4), a great short film about the EU Hackathon, or my beer focused take on it in the most recent episode of Living Proof. I will be heading back to Europe, to visit Paris for the first time the week of December 5th. On the events side, I will be interviewing Cory Doctorow live at New America this Tuesday and the organizers of the fantastic Southern California Linux Expo have extended a special discount code to my listeners. Just put “CMDLN” (without the quotes) in when registering to receive 50% off. In addition, they’ve given me one free pass to give away, just be the first to email me asking about it.

This week’s security alerts are study finds privacy tools are failing to protect users and security researchers bypasses Windows 8 secure boot.

In this week’s news, gamers create recipes for protein-folding algorithms, a public library completely re-imagined, high resolution microscopy advance could shrink CPUs beyond current limits, and a super computer on a chip.

Following up this week Senate votes down anti-network neutrality resolution and the online piracy debate is far from over.

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In the intro I gave another brief travel update as I am leaving right after releasing this episode for Brussels to participate in the EU Hackathon. I have booked my travel to Paris for the first full week of December. Speaking of events, Cory will be in DC November 22nd and I will be interviewing him at a live book event followed by Q&A. Another event, which I won’t be attending, but looks worth checking out is the Indiana Linux Fest.

The hacker word of the week this week is fontology.

The feature this week is a rant on how copyright is becoming toxic. This is partly informed by currently events and partly by my current and recent reading.

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In the intro, Dennis Ritchie Day, John McCarthy passes away, and a quick review of “Children of the Sky” by Vernor Vinge, his sequel to “Fire Upon the Deep.”

This week’s security alerts are using a smartphone as a keylogger and ASLR comes to Android 4.0.

In this week’s news, salted disks hold up to six times more data, Kinect turns any surface into an interactive touch screen, 18th century cipher cracked with the aid of machine translation, and massively parallel computer built from a single layer of molecules.

Following up this week the House version of the Senate’s flawed copyright bill is even worse.

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In the intro I gave a brief travel update–I’ll be in San Francisco for the Silicon Valley Human Rights conference, Brussels for the EU Hackathon and Paris in December. I thanked Jed for treating me to dinner and beer while he was out in  the DC area. I observed a moment of silence to commemorate the passing of Dennis Ritchie.

Listener feedback this time was from Eric in response to the interview from last week.

The hacker word of the week this week is FOD.

The feature this week includes a couple of readings from Cory Doctorow’s just released essay collection, (c)ontext.

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In the intro I mentioned Chris Miller’s post about info-suicide and my thoughts on the passing of Steve Jobs.

Listener feedback this time was from Charles who also supplied a follow up, Chris Miller, and Kevin.

The feature this week is an interview with int 0×80, the MC of the hip-hop, nerd core group, Dual Core.

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This week’s security alerts are smart meters reveal TV viewing habits and first solutions to new, critical SSL/TLS vulnerability.

In this week’s news, the troubled history of UNIVAC America’s first commercial computer, how Microsoft might lock Linux of Windows 8 computers including Microsoft’s own response to the suggestion, Dawkins’ weasels beat British Museum monkeys at producing Shakespeare, and the future of the silicon chip.

Following up this week modern replica of Babbage’s unfinished machine moves forward and Canadian DMCA expected to pass.

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Update: A listener brought to my attention a couple of spots in this episode’s audio that were very problematic. I have fixed the original audio and reposted for anyone who hasn’t yet listened to the episode.

The hacker word of the week this week is Flyspeck 3.

The feature this week is a discussion of some of my recent experiences with communities and the questions they raise.

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This week’s security alerts are Intel demos new hardware assisted security and the return of BIOS trojans.

In this week’s news, consequences of the recent certificate authority hacks including browser maker responses and constructive and not so constructive alternatives, full duplex wireless could double bandwidth, a new game to learn coding through game play, and considering whether a robot could be conscious.

Following up this week authors guild sues universities over book digitization and Sony’s response to troubling breaches is to use terms of service to forestall suits while suggesting it is for the customers best interest.

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In the intro, a reminder that I will be at the Ohio Linux Fest this weekend. If you are going to be there, come and find me!

The hacker word of the week this week is flush.

The feature this week is a discussion of my experiences traveling to Budapest, Hungary for Transfabric, focusing on the event itself. If you want to hear my personal impressions, in rough form, I recorded about ten minutes each night I was there.

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In the intro, my thanks to James C. for his generous donation  and Jed wrote in to share the title of the short story he mentioned in his feedback in the last episode: Risk.

The hacker word of the week this week is flowchart.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of travel.

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In the intro, I announce the shift of this podcast to a once weekly schedule from twice weekly and my reasons for making this change.

Listener feedback this week was all in response to the science fiction monologue on AI, from Eric and from Jed who also mentioned “For Want of a Nail” on Escape Pod.

The hacker word of the week this week is flood.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of adjustment. It continues the trajectory of my personal career discussions from work-life balance through personal growth and my rant on having nowhere to go.

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In the intro, my thanks to Craig for another donation, a particularly generous one this time. Also a heads up on some upcoming travel, to Transfabric in Budapest and Ohio Linux Fest.

This week’s security alerts are child finds a flaw in mobile games and a clear illustration of why the common wisdom about secure passwords may be bad advice.

In this week’s news, UCLA is the latest school to offer a digital humanities program (similar to MITH at UMD with its great speaker series), a stone-like optical disc that might last forever, breakthrough in portal and high resolution 3D scanning, and IBM CTO argues the PC is in decline.

Following up this week Google aids Bletchley Park again and Google brings Android App Inventor to an end.

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